Changelogs
Version History[]
Version
Description
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Ink Swell
- Reduced tendrils damage per second bonus from 40% to 30%.
- Reduced expire max damage bonus from 40% to 30%.
- Reduced damage as spell lifesteal from 40% to 30%.
- Ink Swell
Talents:- LVL 15+14% Ink Swell movement speed bonus reduced to +12%.LVL 25+60% Stroke of Fate damage increased to +75%.
- UIncreased Soulbind cooldown from 70/60/50 to 70/65/60.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Ink Swell creep spell lifesteal multiplier from 1 to 0.8.
- Phantom's Embrace
- Changedcooldown skip from upon dealing rend damage to upon full projectile return.
- Increased projectile speed from 850 to 1150.
- Now refreshes when the phantom reaches Grimstroke rather than the moment Rend Damage is dealt.
- Ink Swell
- Increased cast range from 400/525/650/775 to 500/600/700/800.
- Increased max stun duration from 1/1.6/2.2/2.8 to 1.3/1.8/2.3/2.8.
- Increased buff duration from 3 to 5.
- Addedthe Ink Explosion sub-ability.
- The cooldown starts upon Ink Swell cast, and can now be detonated at any time within its duration to prematurely trigger its ability effects.
- Soulbind
- Now fully pierces debuff immunity.
- UCan now directly cast on the Spirit Bear as the primary target.
- Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
- Ink Swell
- Increased movement speed bonus from 12%/14%/16%/18% to 20% on each level.
- Reduced max stun duration from 1.1/1.9/2.7/3.5 to 1/1.6/2.2/2.8.
- Reduced cooldown from 30/26/22/18 to 27/24/21/18.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Dark Portrait
- Changedillusion type from Basic to Strong.
- The illusion buff now grants Debuff Immunity with 95% magic resistance bonus. [?]
- Dark Portrait
Talents:- LVL 10+50 Phantom's Embrace damage per second increased to +65.LVL 25+50% Stroke of Fate damage increased to +60%.
- Increased Ink Swell movement speed bonus from 10%/12%/14%/16% to 12%/14%/16%/18%.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Dark Portrait can now be used on spell immune enemies.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+20% Soulbind spell damage amplification increased to +25%.
- Phantom's Embrace
- Increased travel speed to target from 750 to 850.
- Increased travel speed back to caster from 750 to 1150.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- UIncreased Dark Portrait illusion damage taken from 300% to 350%.
- Increased Stroke of Fate slow duration from 1.5 to 1.75.
- Reduced Soulbind cooldown from 100/75/50 to 90/70/50.
- Talents:
- LVL 15
- Stroke of Fate
- Reduced cast point from 0.8 to 0.6.
- Reduced projectile speed from 2400 to 2000.
- Reduced base damage from 120/180/240/300 to 100/160/220/280.
- Increased damage increment per hit from 18/27/36/45 to 20/30/40/50.
- Talents:
- LVL 20+800 Stroke of Fate cast range/distance increased to +1000.LVL 25+40% Stroke of Fate damage increased to +50%.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
- Increased Stroke of Fate damage increment per hit from 16/24/32/40 to 18/27/36/45.
- Increased Ink Swell buff duration from 3 to 4.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- UReduced Dark Portrait illusion damage taken from 350% to 300%.
- Ink Swell
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 12%/14%/16%/18% to 10%/12%/14%/16%.
- Rescaled stun duration from 1/1.9/2.8/3.7 to 1.1/1.9/2.7/3.5.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Ink Swell
- Reduced tendrils damage per second bonus from 50% to 40%.
- Reduced expire max damage bonus from 50% to 40%.
- Reduced damage as spell lifesteal from 50% to 40%.
- Ink Swell
- Increased Phantom's Embrace damage per second from 6/14/22/30 to 10/20/30/40.
- Increased Soulbind latch radius from 550 to 600.
- ReworkedAghanim's Shard upgrade:
- OldGrants Grimstroke the Ink Over ability.
- NewInk Swell
- Now applies a strong dispel on the affected target upon expiring.
- Now heals the affected target for 50% of the total damage dealt. [?]
- Increases tendrils damage per second by 50%.
- Increases expire max damage by 50%.
- AddedAttribute Bonus.
- Talents:
- LVL 10-4s Ink Swell cooldown increased to -6s.LVL 10+100 cast range ➜ +50 Phantom's Embrace damage per second.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Ink Over
- Increased cast range from 700 to 950.
- Increased total damage from 240 to 320.
- Increased movement speed slow from 20% to 25%.
- Ink Over
- Increased attack range from 575 to 600.
- Phantom's Embrace
- Now also refreshes the ability's cooldown if the target dies before the phantom reaches it.
- Reduced mana cost from 110/120/130/140 to 80/100/120/140.
- Rescaled cooldown from 32/28/24/20 to 36/30/24/18.
- Phantom
- Reduced gold bounty from 30‒35 to 10 .
- Reduced experience bounty from 20XP to 10XP.
- Reduced gold bounty from 30‒35
- Ink Swell
- Now reaches max damage and stun duration after 2.5 seconds of enemy hero contact, instead of 3. [?]
- Reduced max damage from 100/200/300/400 to 90/180/270/360.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Dark Portrait illusion duration from 15 to 25.
- AddedAghanim's Shard upgrade for Grimstroke:
- Grants Grimstroke the Ink Over ability.
- Ink Over
- Covers a target enemy in ink for a duration, slowing their attack speed and movement speed, and dealing damage over time.
- Cast time: 0
- Cast range: 700
- Total damage: 240 (Magical)
- Movement speed slow: 20%
- Attack speed slow: 50
- Mana cost: 125
- Cooldown: 14
- Notes: Does not pierce spell immunity. The debuff is applied instantly upon cast.
- Increased attack range from 550 to 575.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+20 movement speed ➜ +100 cast range.LVL 15+150 cast range ➜ +20% Ink Swell movement speed bonus.LVL 20+650 Stroke of Fate cast range/distance increased to +800.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+25 movement speed reduced to +20.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+100 Ink Swell max damage reduced to +80.LVL 10+30 movement speed reduced to +25.LVL 15+175 cast range reduced to +150.LVL 15+20% spell damage amplification reduced to +15%.LVL 20+800 Stroke of Fate cast range/distance reduced to +650.LVL 25+50% Stroke of Fate damage reduced to +40%.LVL 25+200 Ink Swell radius reduced to +150.
- Increased Phantom's Embrace rend damage from 80/170/260/350 to 120/200/280/360.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+15% spell damage amplification increased to +20%..LVL 20+600 Stroke of Fate cast range/distance increased to +800.
- Increased base intelligence from 23 to 25.
- Talents:
- LVL 10LVL 15+125 cast range increased to +175.LVL 15+12% spell damage amplification increased to +15%.
- Increased Phantom's Embrace rend damage from 75/150/225/300 to 80/170/260/350.
- Increased Ink Swell cast range from 400/500/600/700 to 400/525/650/775.
- Reduced base attack damage from 25‒29 to 21‒25.
- Reduced base attack damage from 27‒31 to 25‒29.
- Soulbind no longer slows movement speed by 10%.
- Dark Portrait
- Increased illusion damage taken from 200% to 350%.
- Reduced duration from 20 to 15.
- Ink Swell can now be cast on spell immune allies.
- AddedAghanim's Scepter upgrade for Grimstroke:
- Grants Grimstroke the Dark Portrait ability.
- Dark Portrait
- Creates an illusion of an enemy hero. The illusion is spell immune, and moves faster than the target.
- Cast range: 1200
- Cast time: 0
- Illusion movement speed: 130%
- Illusion damage dealt: 150%
- Illusion damge taken: 200%
- Illusion duration: 20
- Mana cost: 200
- Cooldown: 35
- Notes: The illusion can be controlled normally. The illusion is visually distinguishable from real heroes, for allies and enemies.
- Increased intelligence gain from 3.3 to 3.8.
- Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
- Reduced Phantom's Embrace rend damage from 120/200/280/360 to 75/150/225/300.
- Ink Swell
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 18% on each level to 12%/14%/16%/18%.
- Increased mana cost from 90/100/110/120 to 120/130/140/150.
- Addedto Captain's Mode
- Increased strength gain from 2.2 to 2.4.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Soulbind
- Now applies the leashed status on bound enemies, preventing them from casting teleportation and mobility abilities.
- Reduced duration from 6/8/10 to 6/7/8.
- Reduced the distance required for the Phantom to latch onto its target. [?]
- Ink Swell
- Expire area stun and damage are now based on the amount of tendril damage instances applied to a single hero, instead of all heroes collectively. [?]
- Reduced expire max stun duration from 2/2.8/3.4/4 to 2/2.6/3.2/3.8.
- Phantom's Embrace
- Increased latch duration from 4/4/5/5 to 5 on each level.
- Reduced damage per second from 12/18/24/30 to 6/14/22/30.
- Ink Swell
- Reduced expire max damage from 220/280/340/400 to 160/240/320/400.
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 18%/22%/26%/30% to 18% on each level.
- Ink Swell
- No longer grants the target attack immunity.
- No longer silences the target.
- No longer disarms the target.
- Increased Soulbind duration from 4/6/8 to 6/8/10.
- Created
Patch History[]
Patch
Description
- Updated hero model.
- Updated hero model.
- Fixed ability interactions between Soulbind, Parting Shot and the Spirit Bear.
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- Fixed the following abilities' interaction with the Dark Portrait illusion:
- Fixed illusions creating sources (e.g. Dark Portrait) being unable to cycle through its units.
- Addednew Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Grimstroke has the following values: Flying
1, Undead1, Legs0and Nose1.
- Grimstroke has the following values: Flying
- Updated Soulbind ability backend strings.
- Fixed the following ability interactions with Dark Portrait illusion:
- False Promise
- Forced movement sources (e.g. Force) granting unobstructed movement.
- Soulbind
- Fixed casting ability then casting Phantom's Embrace in the Fog of War causing the game to crash.
- Fixed ability interactions with Death Seeker.
- Updated Dark Portrait ability tooltips.
- Soulbind
- Updated ability descriptions.
- Updated ability notes.
- Fixed Ink Swell tendrils' not healing from each instance of damage.
- Updated Ink Swell ability spell immunity tooltips.
- Updated Dark Portrait ability tooltips.
- Fixed ability interactions between Static Link and Soulbind.
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- Fixed ability interactions between Death Seeker and Soulbind.
- Fixed ability interactions between usable abilities while channeling and Spell Reflection (i.e. Soulbind).
- Updated default hero model.
- Fixed Ink Swell particle effects not matching the ability duration.
- ChangedPhantom's Embrace damage per second value in the NPC files from a hardcoded value to a variable.
- Fixed Ink Swell ability particles not matching the duration.
- Reduced legs from 2 to 0.
- Dark Portrait
- Added cast sound and target sound.
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- Fixed the game crashing upon casting ability.
- Updated hero model.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Fixed the +200 Ink Swell talent being linked to Phantom's Embrace, instead of Ink Swell for Ability Draft.
- Updated default hero model.
- Updated textures.
- Added lore text to Dark Portrait.
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- Changed Stroke of Fate talent talent values from percentage based to multiplier based. No changes to values, just how it is presented.
- Changed Stroke of Fate
- Dark Portrait
- Fixed Dark Portrait illusions that are not camouflaged having hero health bars instead of creep health bars.
- Fixed being castable on creep-heroes.
- Soulbind
- Fixed extra Rupture charge being consumed when used on with binded units.
- Fixed extra Spirit Siphon charge being consumed when used on with binded units.
- Fixed kill credit logic being permanently lost when Winter's Curse} is used with Soulbind.
- Fixed secondary channeled abilities not being interrupted when the source caster is interrupted or dies.
- Fixed being able to create an invisible and additional leash on a third hero in some rare cases.
- Fixed extra
- Minor fix to Ink Swell cast animation when used by other heroes.
- Updated a few response rules.
- Addedto Ability Draft.
- Phantoms now have a higher targeting priority for auto-attacks.
- Fixed the Phantom latching to invulnerable targets.
- Fixed caster needing to be alive for the Ink Swell explosion damage and stun to apply.
- Soulbind now uses Spell Reflection's interaction list, instead of Spell Block.
- Stroke of Fate
- The slow is now fully dispellable.
- Reduced slow duration from 2 to 1.5.
- Reduced projectile vision radius from 240 to 160.
- Reduced end vision radius from 240 to 160.
- Reduced end vision linger duration from 3.34 to 2.
- Fixed the +600 range talent not correctly updating the range indicator.
- Phantom's Embrace
- Fixed the +2 attacks to destroy talent adding 1.3 attacks, instead of 2 (for non-heroes 4 attacks, instead of 6).
- Reduced latch duration from 4/4.5/5/5.5 to 4/4/5/5.
- Phantom
- Now returns (and refreshes the ability's cooldown) when its target dies, instead of disappearing.
- No longer dies when its target turns invulnerable or hidden, and can now latch on such units.
- Reduced vision from 400 to 200.
- Fixed the +2 attacks to destroy
- Ink Swell
- Ink tendrils no longer draw for invisible enemies.
- Reduced min damage from 55/70/85/100 to 0 on each level.
- Reduced min stun duration from 0.55/0.7/0.85/1 to 0 on each level.
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 28%/32%/36%/40% to 18%/22%/26%/30%.
- Soulbind no longer grants True Sight.
- Reduced hero model scale 0.81 to 0.76.
- Fixed some tooltip values that didn't update with talent values.
- Added some tooltip notes.
- Created[?]